Machina Labs

Technical Recruiter

• Lead full-cycle recruiting across all roles, with primary focus on software engineering and technical hiring priorities.
• Build and execute proactive sourcing strategies using LinkedIn, GitHub, social media platforms, professional communities, and referral networks.
• Develop creative outreach approaches to engage passive candidates and expand talent pipelines beyond traditional channels.
• Partner with hiring managers to align on role requirements, candidate profiles, and hiring priorities.
• Drive pipeline quality and consistency for high-impact and hard-to-fill roles.
• Manage and prioritize multiple searches simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Ensure a high-quality candidate experience from initial outreach through offer stage.
• Maintain accurate tracking, reporting, and pipeline visibility within ATS systems
• Continuously identify new sourcing channels, tools, and strategies to improve hiring outcomes.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Marketing

• Establish and scale Machina Labs’ presence within the Defense sector, building credibility with Defense Primes and government stakeholders.
• Strengthen positioning and engagement with leading Automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.
• Own and continuously refine company level positioning, messaging architecture, and narrative.
• Scale marketing capabilities across brand, content, public relations, events, digital, field marketing, and demand generation.
• Lead, develop, and expand the existing marketing organization.
• Drive high impact campaigns to increase awareness across strategic global accounts.
• Partner cross functionally with Sales, Business Development, Product, and Executive Leadership to support long cycle enterprise and government sales.
• Maintain hands on involvement from strategy through execution.

Vice President of Marketing

Business Development Rep

• Lead Machina’s defense business development strategy across missiles, hypersonics, UAV, and USV programs.
• Secure feasibility, qualification, LRIP, and full-rate production contracts for structural assemblies.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior Program Managers, engineering leaders, manufacturing leads, and supply chain decision-makers at major Defense Primes and emerging defense companies.
• Engage with relevant Department of War acquisition organizations to support transition from R&D and prototyping into Programs of Record.
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Product, and Executive Leadership to align customer requirements with Machina’s technical roadmap.

Head of Business Development – Defense

Compliance

• Build and Scale the Compliance Program: Design and implement a scalable compliance program aligned with business growth.
• Establish policies, procedures, documentation standards, and internal controls.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership and functional teams.
• Embed compliance into day-to-day operations across engineering, manufacturing, and programs.
• Export and Trade Compliance: Own and manage ITAR, EAR, and OFAC compliance programs.
• Lead export classification of company technologies and technical data (e.g., ITAR USML, EAR ECCN), documenting jurisdiction and classification determinations to ensure compliant handling, licensing, and contractual alignment.
• Own and manage all federal and state business registrations and trade compliance certifications (e.g., SAM.gov, ITAR/DDTC, CAGE, UEI), ensuring timely renewals and accurate filings.
• Draft and manage export licenses, Technical Assistance Agreements, and related filings.
• Conduct export due diligence and restricted party screenings.
• Maintain written policies and procedures governing trade and national security compliance.
• Advise teams on compliant structuring of domestic and international activities.
• Contractual Flow Downs and Regulatory Requirements: Own compliance regulatory flow downs (in particular, those set forth in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS)) across the organization.
• Review contracts and subcontracts to ensure accurate incorporation and applicability of required flow-down clauses and negotiate removal or modification of non-applicable terms.
• Translate customer, regulatory, and contractual obligations into clear internal requirements.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure compliance to relevant flow downs.
• Track and verify compliance obligations throughout the lifecycle of contracts and programs.
• Cybersecurity Compliance and CUI Governance: Support compliance efforts related to NIST 800 171, CMMC 2.0, and DFARS cybersecurity clauses.
• Coordinate documentation, evidence collection, and assessment readiness.
• Partner with IT and Engineering to align cybersecurity practices with contractual requirements.
• Analyze and clarify CUI applicability and markings, and support proper implementation of CUI handling and distribution statement requirements in accordance with contractual and regulatory obligations.
• Quality Systems and Audit Support: Collaborate with Quality to support AS9100 and ISO 9001 environments.
• Assist with internal and external audits, certifications, and regulatory reviews.
• Support site security processes including visitor management and physical security controls.
• Strategic Advisory and Risk Management: Advise leadership on compliance implications related to new programs, foreign partnerships, and strategic initiatives.
• Identify regulatory risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Support organizational design decisions that balance compliance with operational agility.
• Training and Enablement: Develop and deliver targeted compliance training across functional teams.
• Maintain compliance documentation and reporting processes.
• Support operational and administrative compliance activities as the program matures.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Vice President of Marketing

Head of Business Development – Defense

Senior Compliance Manager